According to her parents, Ronald and Andrea Souto, the knife she used was not any sort of knife that might conceivably be used as a weapon to do anyone harm, but rather was from a set of utensils this particular student had used since she was a toddler, complete with cartoon animal prints on the handle:

“This is a set of a spoon, fork and knife for toddlers — one year old,” Andrea Souto said. “It is made for children to learn how to eat properly. She’s used it since she was baby.”

According to the school district, the girl violated the county’s weapon policy when she used her butter knife in the cafeteria to cut the peach.

“The friend asked for half of the peach and she cuts half of the peach and gives to her friend. She goes to the bathroom and comes back and the guy said, ‘Follow me,’” Ronald Souto said.

The local ABC station report shows clearly that even the school district’s write up of the incident referred to the knife as a “butter knife” and acknowledged that the student did nothing with the knife other than to cut a peach in half.